What were Ernest Hemingway's influences in his writings.
- Hemingway was passionately involved with bullfighting, big game hunting and deep sea fishing, and his writing reflects this.
- He visited Spain during the Civil War and his experiences on the war front form the theme of the best seller For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- His early boyhood was spent in the northern woods of Michigan among the native Indians, where he learned the primitive aspects of life such as fear, pain, danger and death.
- He grew up under the influence of his father who encouraged him to develop outdoor interests such as swimming, fishing and hunting.
- Hemingway also acknowledged that he had learn t a great deal from the writings of Joseph Conrad.
- He also publicized his adventurous life widely through his works.
- The famous work titled "A Natural History of the Dead", deals with the brutal realities of the wartime.
- Hemingway went through the shuddering experiences of picking up the dead human remains when an ammunition factory was blown near Milan during the course of his work with Red Cross Ambulance Corps on the Italian Front.
- Later, he covered the Spanish civil war as a reporter. In fact, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, his ambitious novel describes his experience as a journalist during this war.
- This love of outdoor adventure would be reflected later in many of Hemingway's stories, particularly those featuring protagonist Nick Adams.
- Boxing provided more material for Hemingway's stories, as well as a habit of likening his literary feats to boxing victories.
- Fighting on the Italian front inspired the plot of A Farewell To Arms in 1929.
- Hemingway would witness firsthand the cruelty and stoicism required of the soldiers he would portray in his writing when covering the Greco-Turkish War in 1920 for the Toronto Star.
- The Hemingways lived in Paris from 1921-1926. This time of stylistic development for Hemingway reached its zenith in 1923 with the publication of Three Stories and Ten Poems by Robert McAlmon in Paris and the birth of his son John.
- This time in Paris also inspired the novel A Moveable Feast, published posthumously in 1964.
- During his time in Toronto he read Joyce's Dubliners, which forever changed his writing career.
- The famous description of this "lost generation" was born of an employee's remark to Hemingway, and it became immortalized as the epigraph for his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises.
- 1928 was a year of both success and sorrow for Hemingway. In this year A Farewell to Arms was published, and his father committed suicide.
- Clarence Hemingway had been suffering from hypertension and diabetes. This painful experience is reflected in the pondering of Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- Hemingway's extensive travel in pursuit of hunting and other sports provided a great deal of material for his novels.
- Bullfighting inspired Death in the Afternoon, published in 1932.
- In 1934, Hemingway went on safari in Africa, which gave him new themes and scenes on which to base The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Green Hills of Africa, published in 1935.
- In 1937 he traveled to Spain as a war correspondent, and he published To Have and Have Not.
- After his divorce from Pauline in 1940, Hemingway married Martha Gelhorn, a writer. They toured China before settling in Cuba at Fincia Vigia (Look-out Farm). For Whom the Bell Tolls was published in the same year.